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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.

Andre Gide

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Freedom Inspirational Oneself
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Achievement Depend God
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Adventure Believe Finding People Success
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Joy Moments Preparation Unique

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.

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